Sunday, April 17, 2011

Pissed off in OP minor

So Showtime's lurid soap opera The Borgias has a scene where Cardinal della Rovere meets Savonarola, the famous Florentine reformer. He was a Dominican. As below:



In the scene and thereafter in the show, he is dressed (as below) in some generic Hollywood idea of a generic friar, dark habit with a white cord.






It's like confusing a Marine with an Army infantryman. Any idiot could find out how he was dressed.

1 comment:

OreamnosAmericanus said...

Another irritating point. A Borgia spy is sent off to track Cardinal della Rovere and disguises himself as a friar..."a mendicant of the Benedictine order." No such animal.

Benedictines were settled monks, not mobile friars, and self-supporting, not mendicants. This kind of lazy and stupid attitude toward history pisses me off.

If this were a program about the French Revolution, you can bet all the clothes would be right and no one would be confusing factions.

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